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Welcome to a lot of MMO crowdfunding news that we are doing within the last few weeks. In fact, these a few weeks had an amazing story about crowdfunding games, joined by Star CitizenCon (Read More)

The controversial sci-fi game Squadron 42 is finally getting its release, a decade after it was first announced. Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), the developer behind the highly anticipated space simulation game, has announced that the campaign portion of the game is now “feature complete.” (Read More)

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) has said the campaign portion of its controversial space sim is finally “feature complete”, over a decade after it was announced. (Read More)

Cloud Imperium have released a new trailer walkthrough to celebrate, which does admittedly look spaceworthy. (Read More)

The Star Citizen Squadron 42 mode is almost complete, Cloud Imperium and Roberts Space Industries say, as the Mark Hamill-led space game gets a big new trailer. (Read More)

Space exploration, trading, and combat game "Star Citizen," in development since 2011 with a portion available to its 2.5 million early access backers, has passed $250 million USD raised. (Read More)

A lot of games get their start on Kickstarter, some that have released and some that haven't; here is the list of the ten games were highest-funded. (Read More)

Now, who decides whether it a worthy cause? Of course, the discerning audience makes the ultimate decision of injecting money and popularity in a seemingly unknown business. (Read More)

The NYC based company didn (Read More)

Star Citizen's been trudging along since it debuted on Kickstarter in 2012. Initially seeking $500,000, Cloud Imperium Games' space-sim closed its Kickstarter campaign after accruing a little more than $2.1 million in November 2012. Some years later, the studio's first game has exceeded well over $200 million--and the numbers keep going up. Now it's announced the game's biggest update should blast off this weekend. (Read More)

The System Shock series has been a classic ever since the first game came out in 1994. A cyberpunk imagining of the year 2072, System Shock is a first-person action adventure set aboard the Citadel space station. You play as a hacker fighting their way through cyborgs, robots, and mutated crew members to foil the plans of a devious AI system. (Read More)

Millions of people have invested in the future of "Star Citizen," the wildly ambitious, crowdfunded video game project being developed by Cloud Imperium Games. Six years after launching its initial Kickstarter campaign, "Star Citizen" is now the most-supported crowdfunding project ever. (Read More)

Star Citizen's Kickstarter raised over $2.1 million in 2012. Some of that was chipped in by Ken Lord, who was eager to play a successor to Wing Commander, a space combat sim by Chris Roberts, the designer leading Star Citizen's development. That was over five years ago. Today, not only is Star Citizen still in development (its Kickstarter delivery date originally suggested a late-2014 release), it's become a radically different game. (Read More)

El juego Star Citizen est (Read More)

Having raised over $135m, partly via Kickstarter, Star Citizen is one of the most anticipated games in development at the moment  (Read More)

For the second year in a row, the team working on Star Citizen say they (Read More)

Over the years there's definitely been a waning in promotional significance and cultural relevance for Kickstarter in the gaming community, mostly due to scams and unfinished products. However, 2017 still saw a significant amount of traction for crowdfunded projects through the service, making it a huge year for games on Kickstarter. (Read More)

The complaint filed on Tuesday evening begins with a history of Crytek (Read More)

A loan filing placed by CIG has led to speculation that the games company may be suffering some financial trouble and the potential future of Star Citizen. (Read More)

With Alpha 3.0.0 looming on the horizon, Star Citizen now has over $150 million in funding thanks to its community, bringing it closer than ever to becoming the highest crowd-funded project ever. (Read More)

Star Citizen is ambitious. The space sim is set to feature FPS elements as well as space combat that utilizes Newtonian physics, three fictional languages developed by linguistics specialists, a dynamic economy system and will support Oculus Rift. (Read More)

Chris Roberts has announced that the First Person shooter aspect of the space shooter Star Citizen has been delayed. (Read More)

A lengthy look at what $70mil+ has bought gamers in Star Citizen since the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign ended. (Read More)

Everything you need to know about the Star Citizen game for PC including release date, price, platforms, trailer and screenshots. (Read More)

It's Halloween, and that means it's time for a scary story. Here;s five! Five terrifying tales of Kickstarter video games that will keep any backer up at night. (Read More)

Recently, a man raised $55,492 on Kickstarter to make potato salad. While this campaign gained widespread attention, it is one of the strange and somewhat senseless campaigns that have been funded far past the initial goal amount. This drives the question: is crowdfunding being led (or misled) by a misguided herd mentality? (Read More)

Kickstarter is back in the headlines again, and for all the wrong reasons. Yogventures has fallen to pieces, taking developer Winterkewl with it and leaving a trail of passive aggressive recriminations in its wake. Meanwhile, nobody knows what the hell is going on with Areal, which has just had its successful Kickstarter cancelled and has launched another campaign. Vladimir Putin may be involved. It's very dark and confusing. (Read More)

This week's MMO crowdfunding news was dominated by a familiar trio of gamemaking heavyweights as well as an upstart studio bent on updating the magic of Ultima Online. Star Citizen announced a date of May 29th for its dogfighting module Arena Commander thing, while fellow space sim sandbox Elite: Dangerous released its Alpha 4 client, posted a new progress video, and targeted the end of May for its next major release. (Read More)

Space is something particularly special to me. They don’t call it the final frontier for no reason. There are unlimited possibilities out there and I can sense that something great it waiting for me. It’s a realm of opportunity at my fingertips and I just, I – well, I’m certain that this is going to go somewhere good. (Read More)

What crowdfunded game are you most looking forward to? (Read More)

So you’ve (mentally) rolled up a character. You’ve given it some thought, and you know what type of footprint you’d like to leave on the universe. It’s time to choose your first spaceship. It’s important to remember that ships in Star Citizen aren’t just pretty; each is designed with specific roles in mind. Each ship can be fitted with hundreds of components, and they all behave realistically—if there isn’t room for your missile pod to fold into your ship, then it isn’t going to fold into your ship. (Read More)

PAX East gave us our first look at Star Citizen, and it's a little underwhelming. (Read More)

It's no secret that many of the more successful Kickstarter projects over the past few years have heavily capitalized on player nostalgia, brand names, and former dev gods who are back for another round. The formula for drawing in the big bucks seems to be the following: Take something players hugely loved back in the day, dangle the concept of a sequel (spiritual or otherwise), and promise some measure of iterative improvement. (Read More)

He lives for his childhood dream. For Chris Roberts, the creative mind behind Wing Commander, the global success of that game an important event in his life. The President and CCO at Cloud Empire Games Corporation climbed the gaming industry ladder in 1986 with Origin where he first developed the RPG Times of Lore. He landed his biggest success, however, in 1990 with the first Wing Commander, whose franchise was to surpass even the Ultima series. (Read More)

On the latest '10 for the Chairman' Cloud Imperium CEO Chris Roberts opened up about all things hazardous in Star Citizen. (Read More)

Two hundred twelve developers. Eight studios. Over $40 million. More than 300,000 backers. (Read More)

With crowdfunding, publishing partnerships and console initiatives, indie video game developers find new avenues for releasing their work. (Read More)

If there is one game that can be heralded as the current champion of crowdfunding, it’s Star Citizen. At the time of writing, the game has reached almost $40,000,000 in donated funds. No, that’s not a typo, and your eyes didn’t misadjust: that’s $40 million. (Read More)

Kickstarter is fast becoming a mainstream funding source for big video game projects. But this trend could be hurting smaller developers as they fight for attention and backers on the biggest crowdfunding site. (Read More)

We’re definitely living in a golden age of Kickstarter/crowdfunding video games, and whether this will see bountiful harvests or deflated failures or lukewarm efforts is the purview of the future. (Read More)

The only thing Star Citizen and Kingdom Come: Deliverance have in common is passion. Well, maybe an engine, too. But, mainly passion. (Read More)

Someone recently asked me how Cliqist is different than my previous web effort, aren’t all crowdfunded games simply indie games? Why not let the big indie gaming sites like IndieStatik cover what’s worth covering? Do we really need yet another gaming site? Some of those questions are better left for another editorial, but I do know one thing, Warhorse Studios and Roberts Space Industries made a great case for the power of crowdfunding today, and it makes me more excited than ever about Cliqist and our niche of covering the world of crowdfunding games. (Read More)

Roberts Space Industries has unveiled the latest toy to keep rabid space-sim fans satiated until the $37mil behemoth that is Star Citizen is released; the Organization System. While not as sexy as the previously released Hangar Module, which let you explore your own ship, the Organization System is significant none-the-less. (Read More)

That sound you've been hearing all week? Oh, it's nothing: just the collective exhale of millions of people who are all grateful that Broken Age doesn't suck. (Read More)

Star Citizen has raised well over $35m already, and you can't even play it yet. Is this the last hurrah for crowd funding? (Read More)

Matt takes a look back at the year that was on Kickstarter: what got funded, what missed out, what was released, and what ran out of cash. (Read More)

PC space sim from Chris Roberts reaches another stretch goal. (Read More)

For game developers, crowdfunding can be a good way to find out if people actually want what you’re making. (Read More)

Kickstarter success Star Citizen experienced its biggest month in crowdfunding yet reaching $25 million in funding from backers after introducing its Enhanced Alpha stretch goal. This additional funding will help the team build a wider alpha test than originally intended. (Read More)

How much of your money would you give to a crowdfunding project that aims to go to actual space, because it seems a lot of you like it out there an awful lot. Star Citizen, the crowdfunded game from Wing Commander Chris Roberts, just hit $25 million in gathered funds. For those keeping track, that means it’s made $1 million extra in just the past week. (Read More)

Games on Kickstarter raised millions of dollars in 2012, but where are the games? We catch up with the biggest crowdfunded games of the year. (Read More)

Every now and then, a video-game Kickstarter campaign succeeds beyond its wildest financial goals. Here are the top 10. (Read More)

We preview Star Citizen, the first big video game to get completely funded on KickStarter by raising more than $2 million (Read More)

The Kickstarter for Wing Commander Chris Robert's massive Star Citizen reached a major milestone today, and the team outlined new stretch goals for the project. (Read More)

If you build it, they will come. While that adage hold true for baseball diamonds in cornfields, it's a little bit different for MMOs. If you're set on developing a new virtual playground, you get them to come so you can build it! That's the philosophy behind crowdfunding, anyway, and many are latching onto it. (Read More)

What if I told you the biggest, most ambitious rewards-based crowdfunding campaign in history wasn’t a Kickstarter project or an Indiegogo project? (Read More)

Kickstarter has enabled a good number of games to be developed that otherwise wouldn't have ever made it off the drawing board. And what follows are just five games from that list; all which look phenomenal, and all of which are due to be released in 2014. Let's check them out! (Read More)

Cloud Imperium Games shows off detailed ship animations from Star Citizen in a video snippet from its 24-hour livestream. (Read More)

Oh hey so speaking of Star Citizen, if you’re yet to pre-purchase your way in to the Chris Roberts space sim sandbox, it’s time to get on that. Cloud Imperium Games will soon withdraw many of its most thrifty pre-purchase options, like free lifetime insurance on purchased ships, for example. (Read More)

Star Citizen has raised $10M and counting, enough for Roberts to build his own universe at PC Gamer. PCGamer.com is the official web counterpart to the PC Gamer print magazine. Exclusive reviews, demos, and updates and news on all your favourite PC gaming franchises. (Read More)

Heeey guyyyyyss! Sorry about the delay with the news AGAIN! :/ It’s been a REALLY weird week. The holiday weekend REALLY kicked my ass through general lack of sleep, and I’ve really not caught up at all during the week (I love living in Los Angeles, but sometimes its temperature fluctuations can be problematic), so it’s just left me EXHAUSTED, and I’ve barely had the energy to focus on work, let alone anything else. If you’ve listened to this week’s podcast, you might notice my voice gets slurred more and more as the podcast goes on. That’s because I was just so damned tired. Thankfully I feel more awake today than I have all week (which will be ruined again this weekend ;), so I’m gonna dive in with the news, of which there’s a ton... (Read More)

Kickstarter has proven to be a boon for independent game development, especially if you're an industry veteran making games publishers don't want to bankroll anymore. (Read More)

"I can make the same game for a fifth of the revenue [of a AAA title], a fifth of the sales, and I can be more profitable, and I can exist on lower unit sales," says Chris Roberts, speaking to gamesindustry.biz about the huge merits that Kickstarter offers developers. His own Star Citizen project has raised over $8 million in in its Kickstarter campaign, and shows no sign of stopping, with fans continuing to contribute despite the game's release being over a year away. Roberts also spoke about the future of Star Citizen, and possible plans to bring the current PC-exclusive to Sony's PS4. (Read More)

Braben’s Elite: Dangerous is one of a number of space-sim Kickstarters to secure funding, along with Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen, but as next-gen announcements creep ever closer Braben believes the crowd funding phenomenon might even find its way onto Sony and Microsoft’s new machines. NowGamer asked Braben recently if he was concerned that the reveal of new next-gen consoles could ultimately distract from the many Kickstarter projects looking for funding? (Read More)

Though next-generation consoles will definitely be the newsmaker of 2013, Star Citizen developer Chris Roberts has kept his money on the PC. (Read More)

I’m excited to introduce a new feature at the Roberts Space Industries website: “Game Changers!“. Informal discussions with well-known game developers to give everyone an insight into the developer perspective, the things that excite or challenge and to talk a little about what they are up to. An insider’s access to talented developers that have made games that both you and I love. (Read More)

Gaming has quickly found itself to be Kickstarter's most popular category by quite some margin. We have already seen it impact the gaming community and as more and more developers look to crowd funding as a viable means of financing their games, removing the publisher entirely, its success seems assured. But, what do the studios working with Kickstarter think of the process? In the first of a series of interview, we ask the studios turning to Kickstarter and crowd funding what means to gaming and why it's proving to be such a success... (Read More)

Last year's $1 million-plus video game Kickstarters share common reasons for their success. Plus, the developers share their campaign tips for 2013. (Read More)

A Kickstarter campaign for Pathfinder Online, an online role-playing video game from Seattle-based Goblinworks Inc., surpassed its $1 million funding goal today, just five hours before the deadline. The crowdfunding campaign opened in November. To learn more about Pathfinder Online and its successful Kickstarter campaign, we posed a few questions via email to Goblinworks CEO Ryan Dancey. (Read More)

Kickstarter is perhaps the biggest story in the world of gaming since the birth of the home video console or the integration of online components into consumer entertainment. No new product, innovation, or invention has carried with it such immense potential for shifting the way the industry plans, builds, and delivers its products. (Read More)

What a year Kickstarter had in 2012. Tim Schafer's Double Fine kicked the crowd-funding website into orbit back in March, raising more than $3 million to make an old-school adventure game. (Read More)

After game projects like Double Fine Adventure and Star Citizen raised millions on Kickstarter, the video game industry became acutely aware of the crowdfunding website’s money-raising powers. Still, most game projects don’t dare ask for more than around $500,000. The collective wisdom seems to suggest that projects shouldn’t ask for too much because Kickstarters that fail to reach their goals get no money at all. (Read More)

Kickstarter is a place where entrepreneurs and artists can post ideas and raise money from other users. (Read More)

It's difficult to recall a time before Kickstarter's game industry prominence, but just twelve short months ago the crowdfunding website had a considerably lower profile. (Read More)

Chris Roberts loves games. You can’t really fake this stuff. Roberts loves games now, not twenty years ago, and he loves the sort of games Kickstarter enables. I’ve gleaned this from the ultra-earnest message that graced Star Citizen’s Kickstarter page last night. “I don’t think this model works for everything and everyone, but I do think it is a very viable model for a lot of games. And I think it’s great model for some designers, genres and platforms that don’t get the big publisher love because their type of games don’t sell 10 million copies worldwide,” wrote Roberts. (Read More)

Update : Our regularly revised feature keeps you up to date on the Kickstarter games worth watching, and helps you track projects both before and after they’re funded. New this week is a horror game set underground, a space-based strategy game for iOS, and an open-source console/controller. (Read More)

Better late than never: the new forums are online and you can access them here or through the forums tab at the top of the page! The one issue is that you’re going to have to re-add your signatures and avatars… but we finally have the robust, customizable forum system you demanded which allows for proper moderation and community management! (Read More)

It took only a few days for Chris Roberts' ambitious space combat simulator to effortlessly glide past its Kickstarter target of $500,000 and, with 25 days left to go and an extra $89,000 already pledged, it looks set to seriously exceed its original expectations. (Read More)

The two crowdfunding efforts for Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen have come to a close, bringing in a combined $6.2m in pledges. (Read More)

The latest multi-million dollar Kickstarter project to find success is Star Citizen, whose crowd sourcing fundraiser ended today at over $6 million. (Read More)

Star Citizen’s initial Kickstarter goal is beginning to look less modest, more completely absurd. Perched here on our future space-recliners, we laugh at the Chris Roberts of three weeks ago. Look at him running about there, with his tiny plans. Eight hours remain on the clock, but Star Citizen has already been made real by early footage of one of the game’s stations, which you can see below. And there are stretch goals left yet. (Read More)

Space is full of big numbers: billions of stars and galaxies, trillions of planets, more asteroids than there is time in all our lives to count them, so it seems only fitting that Star Citizen has gone on to raise a stupendously large amount of money - now over $4 million. With two days to go Roberts Space Industries is making the push to pass $5 million, at which point they'll have unlocked all their stretch goals and sapped the internet of all its money. Find out exactly what it will being below: (Read More)

At the time of writing, 10,003 fans have pledged $898,488 towards Chris Roberts' new project, all without the aid of a platform like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo. Last night, the development studio took to Facebook to ask fans if the project should expand in that direction. (Read More)